Mitch McConnell ... next year. McConnell, who turned 83 today, was largely expected to end his Senate tenure at the conclusion of his term in January 2027 but made it official in a floor speech ...

Republican Sen. Mitch McConnell, of Kentucky, is announcing on Thursday that he won’t seek reelection next year.It ends a decadeslong tenure as a power broker who championed conservative causes ...

The Senate leader’s iron rule held together a fractious GOP conference that ran from squishy centrist to hardline conservative — and somehow managed to deny Barack Obama the revolution he ...

We laughed. Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) has a gruff charm. That was his way of poking fun at me when I saw him around town. For a long time, I wanted to quickly snap back by thanking him for ...

Mitch McConnell affirmed the "strength ... during the first Trump administration. McConnell called her "the most seasoned cabinet official in modern history" during his speech Thursday.

McConnell has increasingly found himself out of step with a GOP shifting toward the fiery, often isolationist populism espoused by Trump. He set a new precedent for hardball partisan tactics in ...

Mitch McConnell, Kentucky’s longest serving senator, announced plans to retire and not seek reelection for an eighth term in office in a speech on the Senate floor Thursday. McConnell ...

Senator Mitch McConnell, a long-standing figure in the U.S. Capitol, has decided not to pursue reelection for another term. McConnell, who has represented Kentucky in the Senate since 1984 ...

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Sen. Mitch McConnell will not seek reelection in 2026, he announced Thursday. McConnell, who turned 83 on Thursday, has dealt with a series of health scares in recent years and has recently ...

After years of public health issues and speculation, Kentucky’s Republican Sen. Mitch McConnell announced Thursday he will not seek an eighth term of office. In a speech on the Senate floor ...

Photo: Nathan Howard/Reuters/Saul Loeb/Al Drago - Pool via CNP/Zuma Press If you want to hear many Republican lawmakers’ inner monologue these days, listen to Mitch McConnell. On Monday the ...